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Boston’s much-ballyhooed “safe homes” initiative hasn’t received a single call to search a home for guns in the nearly four weeks since the program was launched.
Boston Herald
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By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 4/19/08 4:57 PM EST
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.
But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.
The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called
“Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”
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By CLYNTON NAMUO
New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent
DURHAM – A University of New Hampshire student who was told by a professor that he could not wear an empty gun holster in her class as part of a protest responded by posting the correspondence on the Internet, which earned the professor several angry e-mail from strangers.
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BostonNOW
James O'Brien Senior Reporter
A Washington D.C. anti-gun-violence organization yesterday announced a new Boston office it says it will use to pressure Massachusetts legislators to fund national initiatives.
The group says it doesn't expect its local leader's past, which included a stint in federal prison, to be a distraction.
Boston is the first satellite office of Reaching Out to Other Together, Inc.
Temporarily based at 61 Columbia Road in Dorchester, ROOT, Inc. founder Kenneth Barnes, Sr. said his Boston team was built from previous players in the anti-gun-violence "Boston Miracle" of the 1990s.
Chapter president Celester, however, was in Newark, N.J. by the 1990s.
In 1991, Celester left a deputy superintendent post with the Boston Police Department to become head of the Newark police. His post ended in disaster, Celester pleading guilty in 1996 to three counts of fraud - including the diversion of police narcotics investigation funds and taking illicit donations from police subordinates at an anniversary party. Celester was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison.
"It doesn't concern us at all," said Boston ROOT spokesman Leonard Lee of Celester's history. "I've run a lot of agencies. I know the people who are working on this."
[NCL: Nice credible organization, eh? Can hardly wait to run into these people at the next public hearing.]
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CHICAGO - An epidemic of gunfire rattled the city during the weekend, with at least 32 people shot and six killed.
AP
This from a city where handguns have been BANNED, we might add. Police Superintendent Jody Weis blamed this on getting the "guns off the street". Wow, we wish we'd thought of that!
How about this, since the "gun ban" doesn't work as evidenced by this story AND it's not the "guns" committing these shootings (revelation we know), why not take the criminals responsible off the street instead. We know that might be a revolutionary idea, but let's give it a try shall we?
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